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It is painful to remember this dreadful accident, but to commemorate the tenth anniversary I decided to jot down a few thoughts. The initial shock At noon on September 30, 1999 NHK news reported...
Five years have passed since the JCO criticality accident at Tokai Village. Two people died, compared to the five people who died in the Mihama-3 accident. At the time of the JCO accident Tokyo...
Since the criticality accident of September 30th 1999, the inside of the conversion test building, the site of the accident, has been closed to the public. In September, four years after the accident, JCO...
A survey assistant explains about a survey form of the effects of JCO criticality accident to the residents near JCO Co. on February 2002 (Naka-town, Ibaraki Prefecture. Photo by Noboru Kobayashi) Three...
A year has passed since the JCO criticality accident, but little improvement can be seen in the safety regulation of the nuclear industry. This accident was a tremendous shock to Japan’s nuclear power industry...